Thérèse Geraldy

Thérèse-Marie-Rosine Geraldy (18 June 1884 – 31 July 1965) was a French portrait artist.

Thérèse Geraldy
Thérèse Geraldy, portrait painted in 1904 by her aunt Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte
Born18 June 1884
Paris
Died31 July 1965
Paris
NationalityFrench

Life

Born at Paris, Geraldy was the daughter of Louis Paul Lucien Geraldy, an artist, by his marriage to Marie-Anne-Elizabeth Delsarte, a drawing mistress, and was one of four children. She was a granddaughter of the musician François Delsarte, a cousin of the sculptor Maxime Real del Sarte, and related to the composer Georges Bizet. Educated at the Académie Julian[1] by Marcel Baschet and Henri Royer, she was also a pupil of her aunt Marie Magdeleine Real del Sarte. As a painter, she specialized in portraiture.[2]

In 1906 the Société des Artistes Français gave Geraldy an honourable mention, as reported in Le Figaro and Le Radical on 30 May 1906. On 30 April 1908 Comœdia warmly reviewed her portrait of the politician Paul Escudier.[2]

In 1910 she was awarded the Prix Galimard-Jaubert, worth the substantial sum of 4,800 Francs payable over four years.[3] In 1912 she painted Lord de Saumarez, of Guernsey.[4] Other subjects included Helen Templeton Pogue, the Duchess of Nemours, and the Countess Rosario Schiffner de Larrechea de Zubov.[2]

In 1939 she was appointed to the Legion of Honour, the jewel of which was bestowed on her by her old painting master Marcel Baschet, commander of the Order. She died at Paris on 31 July 1965.[2]

Exhibitions
  • 1907 at Salon of the Société des Artistes Français
  • 1908 at Salon of the Société des Artistes Français
  • 1909 at Salon of the Société des Artistes Français
  • 1910 at Salon of the Société des Artistes Français, showing two portraits for which the Taylor Foundation awarded her the Prix Galimard-Jaubert[5]
  • 1925 at Salon of the Société des Artistes Français[6]
  • 1933 at Salon of the Société des Artistes Français, portrait of Georges Krier[7]
  • 1937 at Exposition internationale (Silver medallist)[8]

Notes
  1. Geraldy, Académie Julian, accessed 11 November 2015
  2. Thérèse-Marie-Rosine Géraldy (1884-1965) at philippybucellyestrees.co.uk, accessed 11 November 2015
  3. Prix Galimard-Jaubert at uni-heidelberg.de
  4. Portrait of James St Vincent Saumarez, 4th Baron de Saumarez at BBC.co.uk, accessed 11 November 2015
  5. prix Galimard-Jaubert (Le Gaulois)
  6. Le Salon de 1925, gallica.bnf.fr
  7. La Croix, 9 May 1933, gallica.bnf.fr
  8. list of exhibitors Archived 2015-09-16 at archive.today, Exposition internationale 1937
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